Honkai Impact, please stop imagining it.

"But we can go to the sea together, even though there are no beaches or yachts."

All that remains is a continuous stretch of roads and sea.

Walking on the seawater on the road, the water was very clear. The dirt and grime in the water had long been washed into the depths of the sea in the past few months, and the seawater that had spread to the road was very clear.

Lin Yu even saw several fish darting back and forth in the trash cans by the roadside in the deeper water some distance away.

If only I had a fishing rod.

Although he had never fished before, Lin Yu inexplicably had this idea at this moment.

Hua reached out and ran her hand across the jellyfish that swam past her feet, then grabbed it and released it to the side of her other foot. It was quite amusing.

There was no water inside the armor, and there were no suicide soldiers on the road near the sea. The suicide soldiers had been washed away in the tsunami caused by the initial weapon of mass destruction.

Beside the road, there was a coffee shop that was half broken but the other half intact. Broken glass was scattered all over the floor, while paper cups lay perfectly intact in the counter.

Lin Yu sat in the coffee shop for a while, waiting for the weather to cool down.

I took another stroll along the sea and finally saw the beach in the evening. There were no traces of humans, and there was much less trash on the beach, but many more marine creatures that had come ashore and burrowed into the sand because the tide was about to go out.

Lin Yu used paper cups and flowers to catch a lot of them, and then released them all back into the wild.

It was meaningless, but I was happy.

Perched on Hua's back, Lin Yu said in a good mood, "Then I'll have to trouble you to carry me back to Hua."

Hua made an OK sign, lifted Lin Yu's leg, and ran towards the city.

For dinner, they ate boiled noodles. Hua wanted to help, but she felt like she was making things worse. It took Lin Yu almost half an hour to cook the noodles in a hot pot. The two of them ate their fill.

They lay on the sofa, clutching their stomachs like two pregnant women about to give birth, and smiled at each other.

The weather was still around 30 degrees Celsius in the evening, very hot. When I was outside, I didn't feel much because there were interesting things around, and all I felt was anticipation.

But when I got home, the dimly lit room was only illuminated by the blue flame under the hot pot.

In the dimly lit room, the moisture from the hot pot and the lingering heat from the weather forced Lin Yu and Hua to stand up, still feeling stuffed, turn off the blue flame under the hot pot, and help each other back to their bedroom.

The temperature in the bedroom suddenly dropped, a stark contrast to the 30-degree heat and humidity outside. I got goosebumps and curled up in a ball under the covers at the very back of the bed.

Lin Yu also climbed onto the bed, lifted Hua's quilt, and crawled inside, with only their heads sticking out.

On a day when the temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius, Lin Yu never imagined that he would one day have to huddle together with Hua under a thick blanket for warmth.

"What temperature did we set it to when we left?"

He exhaled, creating a layer of white mist. "Sixteen degrees or eighteen degrees... I forgot."

It was noon, over 39 degrees Celsius. Even adjusting the temperature to 16 degrees Celsius felt like it was too slow to cool down.

"The temperature must be more than sixteen degrees now."

Hua reached out and touched the upper body armor. There was already frost on the armor. He adjusted the temperature to 25 degrees Celsius, changing the original cooling to room temperature, and then put the armor back.

Hua adorably blew on her numb fingers, which were frozen, and pulled them back under the blanket. "Um, I think I adjusted it wrong."

Lin Yu: "What's the temperature now? No wonder the doorknob feels a bit cold when I open it."

Lin Yu huddled next to Hua, their bodies pressed side to side. Hua's warm body temperature felt so comfortable compared to the outside temperature.

Lin Yu crawled into another blanket on the bed to warm up before climbing back to Hua's side.

"The air temperature is five degrees right now, but it will rise soon, in just one or two hours. Can I open the temperature to twenty-five degrees?"

"OK."

If you wrap yourself in a blanket, you don't have to worry about there being a gap between you two when you're huddled together under one blanket.

The pillow was dirty, but luckily Lin Yu had bought an extra-long throw pillow before, which could be used as a huge pillow when placed horizontally in front of the bed.

"Hey, don't worry about what I'll do to you tonight, I'm perfectly honest."

Hua lay down obediently, facing the ceiling, and said this, but her eyes unconsciously drifted towards Lin Yu.

Lin Yu: "You're the one who should be worried, you idiot. What am I, a grown man, afraid of?"

“You can’t say that. Himeko told me that there are so many girls in Australia who want to marry you.”

Hua's voice became a little softer.

"Oh, that makes sense, after all, I'm not ugly."

With Himeko around, I can be considered half a rich and handsome guy.

The husband was in poor health and died young; the family was wealthy and the elders held high positions; both parents were deceased, but the older sister was their highest-ranking superior. If this were on the matchmaking market, women would be lining up for them, and they might even fight each other.

"Do you want to marry me?"

Hua turned her head to the side, her big, watery eyes filled with curiosity, creating an interesting scene with her innocent and naive face.

"Why not? If there were any, I would definitely take as many as I could get; I'd never lose out."

Hua: "...Don't you have any shame? And if there are too many girls, can your body handle it?"

Hua's face flushed red instantly, but in the dimly lit room near dusk with the windows sealed shut, Lin Yu couldn't see anything.

"My body can't take it anymore, but my will will carry me through the chaos."

Lin Yu felt like he was flirting with what he was saying, even though Hua had brought up the topic first.

"You should think about your own health too. I think... now is not the time for you to talk about marriage. You are still young."

Lin Yu: "Do you want to marry me?"

hua: "!!!"

Lin Yu: "If you marry me, I might agree on the spot, who knows?"

Hua: "...Um, is this a marriage proposal?"

"You hesitated, which means you might agree, right?"

Hua's mind went blank. She turned her head and stammered, "I'll think about it."

Lin Yu: "But didn't you say that I'm still young and shouldn't be thinking about these things?"

Hua finally couldn't resist changing the subject, blushing as she asked, "The beach in Changkong City is quite beautiful. Did you go there often before?"

The sea that had half-submerged the road made the houses stand still like a stop-motion animation, looking exceptionally beautiful under the seaweed.

Some vehicles have become playgrounds for fish, which come and go in and out. Occasionally, a few large fish pass by, scaring them so much that they immediately retreat back into their cars, standing there dumbfounded.

"No, today is my first time going to the beach."

"Hey? Isn't your house right here?"

Changkong City and Canghai City are two major coastal cities with extremely long coastlines. Moreover, Lin Yu's home is not far from the sea, only a few minutes' drive away. Lin Yu should have been there before.

Lin Yu thought for a moment, "Hmm... I bought this house, and I'm a total homebody. Although the real estate agent initially told me it was quite close to the beach, I never went there because of my health, and then I forgot about it."

"Maybe it's because we're too close, and we've lost our filter. We think the seaside isn't anything special, so we've never been there. If you ask me to tell you what fun places there are in Changkong City, the only thing I can say besides the aquarium is the zoo."

Hua: "Have you only been to these two places?"

Lin Yu shook his head. "These two places have the most advertisements, as well as the amusement park, but forget about the amusement park, it doesn't have electricity."

Hua: "So where have you been?"

I'd like to revisit the interesting places you've been to with you; it might be fun for me too.

"Hospital, zoo, then school, home. I usually go between the hospital and home, just the two points, and then I added school."

As Lin Yu lay in bed, recalling the scenes from his memories, he said this.

Hua: "Are there any fun things in the hospital?"

Lin Yu: "No, there's only the smell of medicine and disinfectant. The nurses and doctors are busy, and they can only steal a moment of romance when they're busy, but that moment of leisure is too short."

Nobody likes a hospital, right? Lin Yu didn't have a good impression of hospitals, not because of the people inside, but because of the atmosphere. Being inside always gave him the feeling that he was about to die, and the illusion that he was already old.

"Let's go to the zoo tomorrow. We'll go to the zoo in the morning and the park in the afternoon. What's the weather like tomorrow?"

Lin Yu made up his mind and asked curiously.

"It's raining heavily."

Hua checked the weather forecast for tomorrow: heavy rain in the morning and cloudy skies in the afternoon.

Lin Yu: "What about this afternoon?"

"It's cloudy this afternoon, so we can go to the zoo. Speaking of which, I wonder if anything will happen to the animals there after all this time."

Several months have passed; the animals inside are probably all dead by now.

Lin Yu smiled and said, "That's a zoo that's a wildlife sanctuary, so they don't usually send much food to the animals."

"Is it the one on the edge of Changkong City? I remember now, Changkong City Wildlife Reserve. You mean the zoo? I didn't realize it was that one. Oh, it's that one. It's a bit far. If we go this afternoon, we might not be able to get back by tonight."

"Hmm, how about I order a travel guide? I travel a lot, and Changkong City isn't big, so I can order it quickly."

Chapter 60: Here's my supplementary gold card for you~

"So you planned your own travel itinerary in Canghai City?"

"Of course, we went to the beach first, then to the museum, then to the cultural relics exhibition, then to some ancient coastal buildings and to see some ancient sailing ships, and finally to the martyrs' cemetery."

Hua chattered on about her journey in Canghai City, seemingly still thinking about the city before the collapse. Lin Yu lay quietly beside her and listened.

"Actually, I've seen you more than once in Canghai City. Every time I wanted to go up and talk to you, but Su stopped me every time. It wasn't until I sent him out of Canghai City, which was in the midst of a collapse, that I finally spoke my first words to you."

That alley, that flickering light, that charging Honkai Beast that couldn't get down, and Hua huddled behind a trash can, trembling with fear.

Lin Yu smiled and said, "Do you know why?"

Hua: "The alley in Canghai City where we met wasn't the first time I'd seen you. I'd seen you four or five times, but each time I didn't have the courage to go to you. You were always with that very lively boy, who would drag you to other places to play."

"Actually, there was a moment when I even doubted whether your relationship with Su was normal. But after seeing you pat Su's butt in public, I realized that you are a boy with a normal sexual orientation."

Boys with abnormal sexual orientations would never fearlessly pat their brothers' butts in front of them; they would only pretend to be aloof and not want any boys to touch them in public.

Only boys with normal sexual orientations will touch each other inappropriately, and sometimes they will even play and fight in bed, calling each other "husband" and "wife" in a whiny way.

At least that's what Hua saw at school. Yes, she was a disciplinary committee member, according to what the male classmates said.

Lin Yu: "Huh? You even doubted my sexual orientation? How could that be? My best buddies all say I'm normal."